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 include "counter2.php";

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<?php pagehead(_("News: Charset change")); ?>
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<?php pagetop(_("The Linux Counter changes character set")) ?>

<?php print _("The Linux Counter has been running for 10 years with the \"ISO 8859-1\" character set. In 1993, this was the only reasonable character set to choose; in 2004, it is clearly insufficient to represent the names of people and places registered in the Linux Counter.") ?>
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<?php print _("It also makes sense that the Linux Counter should reflect the fact that Linux is one of the most internationalized and globalized systems out there!") ?>
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<?php print _("Therefore, the Linux Counter is converting its internal data representation and its web pages to the character set that today comes closest to being an \"universal\" character set: Unicode - in particular, the UTF-8 representation of Unicode.") ?>
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<?php print _("We expect some \"teething problems\" during the changeover, but expect that these will all be solved before 2005 has gone very far.") ?>
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<?php print _("This is also a key component in making it possible to translate the Linux Counter's user interface into multiple languages.") ?>

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